Washington Report
The Washington Report offers NCSHA members a weekly update on the latest affordable housing developments in Washington, as well as NCSHA activities and HFA initiatives and innovations. To learn more about NCSHA, membership, or upcoming events, please contact us. We welcome media inquiries; please contact Lisa Bowman, Director, Marketing and Communications.
Washington Report | September 28, 2018
Even words like ‘emergency’ and ‘epidemic’ seem insufficient to adequately characterize deaths from drug overdoses in this country, which now annually exceed the number of American military...
Washington Report | September 21, 2018
On August 17, North Carolina HFA executive director Scott Farmer attended a ribbon cutting at a rehabilitated home in Wilmington that had been damaged by Hurricane Matthew, one of hundreds the...
Washington Report | September 14, 2018
Ten years after the Great Recession forced the federal government to make major changes to the nation’s housing system, state housing finance agencies (HFAs) are increasingly important to the...
Washington Report | September 7, 2018
There’s a long-running argument in American politics about whether the private sector or public sector is the most cost-effective delivery system for products and services society needs, such...
Washington Report | August 31, 2018
We’ve known for a while now that a shortage of construction workers has led to higher housing costs. “Although better housing quality accounts for some of this increase, sharply higher costs for...
Washington Report | August 25, 2018
Toward the end of a season that saw extensive coverage of the financial crisis’ 10-year anniversary have come a flurry of headlines pointing to continued evolution in a market shift that the crisis...
Washington Report | August 17, 2018
New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority (MFA) executive director Jay Czar and his senior team convene the agency’s board annually for a retreat to report on progress implementing current strategy,...
Washington Report | August 10, 2018
In a meeting of housing and consumer organizations this week, we heard from Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting that the OCC would issue an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR)...
Washington Report | August 3, 2018
Today’s funeral for Jeremy Nowak in Philadelphia is an occasion to mourn the untimely passing and reflect on the remarkable legacy of an innovator whose impact was, and will continue to be,...
Washington Report | July 27, 2018
The 2018 edition of the "State of the Nation's Housing" from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, published last month, marks the 30th anniversary of that indispensable report, which...
